1624

This article is about the year 1624.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1590s  1600s  1610s  – 1620s –  1630s  1640s  1650s
Years:	1621 1622 1623 – 1624 – 1625 1626 1627

1624 by topic:

Arts and Science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1624 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1624 MDCXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2377
Armenian calendar	1073 ԹՎ ՌՀԳ
Assyrian calendar	6374
Bahá'í calendar	-220–-219
Bengali calendar	1031
Berber calendar	2574
English Regnal year	21 Ja. 1 – 22 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar	2168
Burmese calendar	986
Byzantine calendar	7132–7133
Chinese calendar	癸亥年十一月十一日 (4260/4320-11-11) — to — 甲子年十一月廿二日 (4261/4321-11-22)
Coptic calendar	1340–1341
Ethiopian calendar	1616–1617
Hebrew calendar	5384–5385
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1680–1681
- Shaka Samvat	1546–1547
- Kali Yuga	4725–4726
Holocene calendar	11624
Igbo calendar
- Ǹrí Ìgbò	624–625
Iranian calendar	1002–1003
Islamic calendar	1033–1034
Japanese calendar	Genna 10Kan'ei 1 (寛永元年)
Juche calendar	N/A (before 1912)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3957
Minguo calendar	288 before ROC 民前288年
Thai solar calendar	2167

Year 1624 (MDCXXIV) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• January 14 – After 90 years of Ottoman occupation, the Safavid empire recaptures Baghdad.
• January 24 – Afonso Mendes, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa.
• April 29 - Louis XIII of France appoints Cardinal Richelieu chief minister of the Royal Council.
• May 8 – A Dutch fleet captures Bahia, Brazil from the Spanish.
• 24 May - After years of unprofitable operation, Virginia's charter is revoked and it becomes a royal colony.
• June – The first Dutch settlers arrive in New Netherland; they disembark at Governors Island.
• June 10 – Treaty of Compiègne, signed between France and the Netherlands

July–December

• July or August – Portuguese Jesuit priest António de Andrade becomes the first European to enter Tibet.
• August – The Siege of Breda begins, and will continue for 10 months.
• August 5–14 – The King's Men perform Thomas Middleton's satire A Game at Chess at the Globe Theatre, London, until it is suppressed in view of its allusions to the Spanish Match.
• August 12 – Cardinal Richelieu is appointed by Louis XIII of France to be his first minister.
• Early October – Action of October 1624: A Tuscan/Papal/Neapolitan galley fleet defeats the Algerians near Sardinia.

Date unknown

• Martin Luther's German translation of the Bible is publicly burned by order of the Pope.
• The Netherlands establishes a trading colony at Tainan on Taiwan.
• The Virginia Land Company's charter is revoked and Virginia becomes a crown colony.
• The city of Oslo in Norway is destroyed by fire for the fourteenth time; King Christian IV of Denmark–Norway decrees its rebuilding on a new site where it will be renamed Christiania.
• Jakob Bartsch records the constellation Camelopardalis around the North Star.
• The Palace of Versailles is first built by Louis XIII, as a hunting lodge.
• The Japanese Shogun expels the Spanish from the land and severs trade with the Philippines.
• Mail service begins in Denmark.
• The University of Saint Francis Xavier is founded in Bolivia.
• Henry Briggs publishes Arithmetica Logarithmica.
• The French Parliament passes a decree forbidding criticism of Aristotle on pain of death.
• Queen Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba starts to rule.
• The Latymer School and Latymer Upper School in London are founded by the bequest of Edward Latymer.
• The city of Dunfermline is destroyed by fire, but The Abbey, The Palace, the The Abbot House and many other buildings survive.
• Frans Hals produces the painting now known as the Laughing Cavalier.

Births

• January 9 – Meishō, empress of Japan (d. 1696)
• January 15 – Rombout Verhulst, Dutch sculptor (d. 1698)
• January 31 – Arnold Geulincx, Flemish philosopher (d. 1669)
• June 15 – Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (d. 1704)
• July – George Fox, English founder of the Quakers (d. 1691)
• August 22 – Jean Regnault de Segrais, French writer (d. 1701)
• August 25 – François de la Chaise, French churchman (d. 1709)
• September 10 – Thomas Sydenham, English physician (d. 1689)
• October 30 – Paul Pellisson, French author (d. 1693)

Date unknown

• Koxinga, Chinese military leader (d. 1662)
  • Jane Leade, English esotericist (d. 1704)

Deaths

• February 12 – George Heriot, Scottish goldsmith and philanthropist (b. 1563)
• February 13 – Stephen Gosson, English satirist (b. 1554)
• February 17 – Juan de Mariana, Spanish historian (b. 1536)
• July – Alonso Fajardo de Entenza, governor of the Philippines
• November 10 – Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (b. 1573)
• November 17 – Jakob Böhme, German mystic (b. 1575)
• December 5 – Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (b. 1560)
• December 14 – Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English statesman (b. 1536)
• December 26 – Simon Marius, German astronomer (b. 1573)
• date unknown
  • Francesco Andreini, Italian actor (b. c. 1548)
  • Shlomyah ben Pinhas, Samaritan High Priest; last of the Phineas bloodline